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#JoyScrolling (for readers and writers alike) I present to you the glorious genius of the inimitable Elle Cordova.

Do pay attention to what's happening in the captions provided (turn off your own if they're on, as they obstruct the ones already there--which are the ones you want, trust me.)

#Language #Writing #ElleCordova @bookstodon

youtube.com/shorts/RC2pFHS0mgU

A grammatical murder mystery

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Elle Cordova (YouTube)
#language #writing #ellecordova #joyscrolling @Bookstodon Group

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Just watching #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire and #JeremyClarkson proves he's still an ignorant petrol head, when a contestant said second most abundant gas in the atmosphere is Carbon Dioxide, and he says she must have been listening to #GretaThunberg!

Edit - change monoxide to dioxide!

#GretaThunberg #JeremyClarkson #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire
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Meanwhile in music.... in a time when music streaming & normal record company double dealing have depressed the income from recording for many musicians, large scale touring has become one solution to making money from music....

There have always been acts whose live profile was better/higher than their recorded one, but now BIIRD are joining the small/select group of musicians who have made their reputation (and income) entirely on the basis of playing live.

#music
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz721w…

BIIRD: All-female Irish trad band set to take flight

The all-female supergroup has sold out venues across the UK and Ireland, toured stadiums with Ed Sheeran, and built a global following - all without releasing a debut record.
Matt Fox (BBC News)
#music

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Today at the march:

#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #FreePalestine #Nakba78

An elderly lady wearing a red jacket and a keffiyeh standing on the pavement holding two placards: MY MOTHER SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST BUT DIED ASHAMED OF ISRAEL'S ACTIONS IN HER NAME THE GREATEST THREAT TO BRITISH JEWS IS TO EQUATE ISRAEL'S POLICIES WITH JUDAISM
#freepalestine #antizionismisnotantisemitism #nakba78
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This photograph, titled "Pink" by photographer Marc Zetterblom, captures a scene in Gamla Stan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

#Photo #Photography #Photographer #sweden

The setting is on the island of Riddarholmen in Stockholm, part of the city's old town, Gamla Stan.
#Photographer #Photography #Photo #Sweden
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Who says #ClimateChange is bad? Look at all the land that we can now use for farming!!!
/s
Thanks @Stean
loops.video/v/fFALczDNVW

Stean

2026-05-15 10:03:27

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A century of change condensed into a few seconds. Period: ca. 1875-2024 Photos: Jürgen Merz

📸 abstract-landscape.com/#climate #animation #glaciers #globalwarming #fyp #fff #politics


#climatechange @Stean
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world" -Thorin Oakenshield, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘵.

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Stean

But what are the consequences of such appeals? Who is meant to take them to heart, and how should they act? Why this is necessary is merely a rhetorical question; Pandora’s box has been opened – where will there be a refuge for human thought and action? Where?

MLA-Stil: Geoffrey Hinton – Nobelprice 2026. Mo. 11. Mai 2026. nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/…

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"
NobelPrize.org
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When Philip Glass is reincarnated as a golden retriever. (The brightest of all dog breeds.)

#dog #dogs #dogstoton #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour

#humour #humor #dogsofmastodon #dogs #dog #dogstoton
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Bishop Swan is on my list of favorite Christians in America.

As for the white evangelicals he talks about in this quote, I offer another quote: “Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer.”

Only a white man in America can… - Be videotaped with underaged girls 3 while hanging with a child sex trafficker - Cheat on his wife with a porn actresses and pay her to keep quiet a - Publicly fantasize about having sex with his own daughter - Openly boast on tape about sexually assaulting random women - Be convicted of 34 felonies, have 91 criminal charges, 26 sex assault allegations, 5 bankruptcies, and 2 impeachments - Be sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination - Have a $25 million fraud settlement, a $400 million fraud judgment, and of $96 million sexual assault judgments …and be considered a good Christian by white evangelicals and elected president of the United States TWICE. — BISHOP TALBERT SWAN
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⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

i had some interaction with bishop swan back in the twitter days (all positive)

what people need to learn from bishop swan is to be loud and proud. and get in the nazi's faces. and don't take shit from anyone. and don't temper your words, lean into your outrage and talk shit right back at them

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We need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Currently 85,000.

Internet. Do your thing!

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.
Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

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